thousands of protesters storm the north carolina legislative building last night. they are protesting the state s republican agenda a movement they are calling mother-in-law mondays. nbc spoke with the leaders and is live in california with us is mara schiavocampo. what were the protesters focusing on yesterday? good morning, richard. yesterday s theme was voting right. both in response to the recent supreme court ruling as well as proposed changes to voter i.d. laws here in the state of north carolina. now, they drew about 3,000 people for their rally and organizers say that is consistent with the numbers that they have been seeing in recent werks bringing in 3 thousand to you to 5,000 people every monday for these events. now every week has a different theme. past themes have included things like women s rights or cuts to unemployment funding but organizers say that the main goal is to protect the
be sustained the way it s going. fewer workers paying in for those who are retiring and taking money out isn t sustainable math. even the president has now acknowledged that by offering this alternative or this fix. why is that so bad? to sustained a program. neil: a number of us have a perfect alternative. raise the cap. neil: raise taxes? raise taxes. you hate when i say that. when we talk about folks making over 113 thousand dollars a year, it only affects those folks. i hit the cap a couple times in my life. it s not money that you count on. it s not part of your budget. it comes in august and september, october for some. and it s nice extra money. i m not saying i don t have anything against people getting that extra perk at the end of the year but it s an easy way to solve social security that doesn t hurt seniors. neil: we re back to raise more money rather than shave the
or if you are a small business owner and you decide to put your employees on the public exchange. but if you get, you say, i am going to get insurance, tell pay for this problem i have. then i am going to dump it and go back to the $95. the whole system, the theory behind the system doesn t work. that s why the obama administration prankly promised health insurance costs to go down $2500 a year. we have seen it in fact, go up $3 thousand. we are really at the beginning of the premium increases we are about to see. this law in a lot of theories and i am believing it this law was built to fail because the next step then is to say, the evil insurance companies are eration the price, even though it s a flawed system and go to a single-payer system, which is the goal of the left from the beginning. it s a very scary thing. i think there is a trust deficit between the american people and the president, and we see that with the thousands of pains of regulations. will thing that struck me,
health care that they, their families and kids need. that s the fear we are going forward with into 13. all the hidden agendas that have been held back on obama health care, we feel are going to start to surface so we will get a better understanding. but the fear is that if the costs continue to rise, we are not going to be able to provide health care to our employees and take care of them the way we have so many years. and the rising costs will then force us to really consider whether you maintain, retract or grow your business, going forward. that s the fear we have. greta: let me ask you two questions. if you report the value, let s say the value is dr. 3 thousand. the fear is that the government will determine that s income to the person and the person receiving that w-2, will now have to pay income tax on the $3,000. is that what you mean as to the value on the w-2? to the best of my knowledge,
families and kids need. that s the fear we are going forward with into 13. all the hidden agendas that have been held back on obama health care, we feel are going to start to surface so we will get a better understanding. but the fear is that if the costs continue to rise, we are not going to be able to provide health care to our employees and take care of them the way we have so many years. and the rising costs will then force us to really consider whether you maintain, retract or grow your business, going forward. that s the fear we have. greta: let me ask you two questions. if you report the value, let s say the value is dr. 3 thousand. the fear is that the government will determine that s income to the person and the person receiving that w-2, will now have to pay income tax on the $3,000. is that what you mean as to the value on the w-2? to the best of my knowledge, that s what i understand.